Kamala Mills fire: Mojo's Bistro co-owner Yug Tuli surrenders before Mumbai Police

Yug Tuli, the absconding co-owner of the Mojo's Bistro pub, in the Kamala Mills fire case surrendered before Mumbai police on Tuesday.

"Tuli came to the police station at around 6.45 am after which he was placed under arrest," Senior Police Inspector Ahmad Pathan of NM Joshi Marg police station told DNA.

Earlier, a sessions court had rejected the anticipatory bail application of Tulli.

Tulli's lawyer had contended that the devastating fire at the Kamala Mills compound on December 29, which had claimed 14 lives, had started from the adjoining 1 Above pub. Hence, the owners of Mojo's Bistro could not be blamed for the tragedy.

However, the prosecution said that a report of the Mumbai Fire Brigade, as well as eyewitnesses, said the fire had started at Mojo's Bistro.

On December 29, the fire had swept through 1 Above and the adjacent Mojo's Bistro resto pub  at the Kamala Mills compound here, resulting in the death of 14 persons.

In its preliminary probe report, the Fire Brigade had said the blaze possibly started at Mojo's Bistro due to the flying charcoal embers of a hookah.

The husband of Parul Lakdawala, one of the fire victims, had filed an intervention application, opposing the anticipatory bail plea of Tuli, saying that the latter was responsible for the death of his wife and others.

The police have already arrested Yug Pathak, a co-owner of Mojo's Bistro.